Brownfield Seminar

Brownfield Seminar 2024

Event Details

On April 16, 2025, more than 250 participants joined GBA for the 13th annual Brownfield Seminar. This must-attend event was available both in-person and virtually, providing quality education and networking opportunities with a wide range of participants, including leading development, legal, engineering, risk management, economic development, and other professionals throughout Georgia and beyond with a shared interest in cleaning and redeveloping contaminated properties, and revitalizing surrounding areas around the state.

View the 2025 GBA Brownfield Seminar Program here.

View the Presentations Here:

Session 1:  Impacts of New Administration on Environmental Policy and Regulation 

 

EPA Update: David Hayes

Session 2: Gas Station Remediation and Redevelopment in Historic South Atlanta 


Session 3: 
Local Government Leaders Panel

  • Mayor Kelly Girtz, Athens-Clarke County
  • City of Social Circle Downtown Development Authority Chairman Mike Owens
  • Mayor Pro Tem Evitte Parrish,  City of Chickamauga


Session 4:  Case Study:
 We Bought What? Rome-Floyd County Development Authority’s EPA-Funded Accelerated Assessment of a 132-Acre Property

  • Stefanie Gugolz, GEI Consultants 
  • Missy Kendrick, Rome Floyd County Development Authority  
  • Jessica Turner, GEI Consultants 
  • David Hayes, EPA
 

Session 5:  Data valuation

 
 

Darahyl Dennis Scholarship Presentation

Keynote Address: Georgia Senator Steve Gooch

Session 6:  How Not to Lose: Tools for Managing Environmental Risk / Liabilities in Transactions for the Win

  • Bill Nellen, Alliant Insurance Services
  • Jason  Lichtstein, Akerman


EPD Update:

 

Session 7:  Innovative Approaches to Infrastructure for Brownfields

Session 8: PFAS Panel + Presentation

 

Session 9:   DAMAR – From RCRA to Brownfield to Retirement

  • Russell K. Fraze, CHMM, WSP + Gerald Pouncey, Morris, Manning & Martin

PSAs:

Community Leader Scholarships

GBA is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships designed to assist community leaders that are interested in brownfield redevelopment, so that we can support and empower communities as they develop and implement solutions related to brownfields and redeveloping environmentally impacted properties.

Please submit your scholarship application no later than Friday, April 4 to Jennifer Lesnieski at jennifer@hlstrategy.com for consideration.

2025 GBA Brownfield Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors for your support of the 2025 GBA Brownfield Seminar! Your support ensures we are able to present one of the most high-value, informative events of the year in support of brownfield redevelopment.

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Abstracts

Share your perspective and expertise at the Georgia Brownfield Seminar. Submit an abstract for consideration and you may be selected to present at the next Seminar. Don’t have a “fully cooked” idea but would like to propose a speaker or topic? We’re accepting those suggestions as well – just drop us a quick email. Abstracts can be submitted via email to Jennifer Lesnieski.

We welcome abstracts about topics including – but not limited to:

  • Brownfield development case studies
  • Building decontamination/abatement and demolition
  • Climate change preparation
  • Community engagement
  • Community health
  • Development challenges and overcoming them
  • Digital solutions and tools
  • Economic development
  • Emerging contaminants and how they could impact development
  • Environmental due diligence
  • Environmental investigation
  • Environmental justice
  • ESG considerations
  • Innovative approaches to managing technical & non-technical risks
  • Grants and lending opportunities
  • Legal issues
  • Legislative
  • Regulations and planning
  • Remediation – soil, groundwater, surface water, sediments, vapor intrusion
  • Risk assessment
  • Teaming with HSRA/VRP
  • Technology
  • Vapor intrusion